Another turn of the hysteria ratchet

In this morning's news, a new proposal which could lead to teachers and social workers being sent to prison for five years if they 'ignore' sexual abuse of children. Leaving aside the fact that I can't believe that anyone in that kind of profession would deliberately ignore any such allegation, how could it ever be proven? Will registration for your average infant school class go something like this - 'Good morning, children. Please raise your hands if you were sexually abused last night'? OK, that's probably reductio ad absurdum, but, more seriously, if a teacher, or anyone else, has a threat of a jail sentence over their head, they're going to report anything and everything, 'just in case', which could well lead to more families - including children, of course - being dragged into the quagmire of the 'sex abuse industry', with its automatic assumption that any adult, especially men, are 'guilty until proven innocent, and probably still guilty anyway'. There is, of course, an election coming up very soon, so the politicos will jump on any bandwagon they think will win them a few more votes, irrespective of the potential for innocent people to have their lives destroyed. Maybe the answer is for children to be taken from their parents at birth, and raised in complete isolation from the world, having no contact with anyone at all. A recipe for intractable psychosis, of course, but at least they'd be 'safe'.

Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B